The McKinsey Edge: Success Principles from the Worlds Most Powerful Consul [Hardcover]

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE A GREAT LEADER?

The ultimate guide to managing your careerat every level, through every transitionThe McKinsey Edgeculls the best practices of an exclusive group of executives and consultants from McKinsey & Company, the legendary consulting firm that services eighty percent of the worlds largest corporations. Drawing on his time as an Engagement Manager with McKinsey, Hattori presents rigorously selected, battle-tested tips that will give you the edge you need to up your game, raise your profile, and take your career to the next levelusing a proven four-step program:

• Learn more effective ways to get ahead by making multiple self-improvements.
• Strengthen your skills of communication, connection, and understanding to influence your team and other stakeholders.
• Increase your productivity and performance using tools that work best for your specific environment.
• Push yourself further to focus your energies, renew your life, and revitalize your career with a new leadership profile.

Each section of this empowering guide includes precise strategies and hard-won advice that will help you tackle the challenges that are unique to each level of management. By applying these 47 principles to your own situation and workplace, youll be able to change not only your personal mindset and managerial effectiveness but others perceptions of you as a leader. Youll discover the best methods for dealing with clients, solving problems, motivating teams, and surpassing expectations. These are the strategies that have taken McKinseys managers and trainers to the top of their fieldsand this is the program that shows you how to take your career wherever you want to go.

Whether youre climbing your way up the corporate ladder, starting on the very first rung, or feeling stuck somewhere in the middle,The McKinsey Edgegives you the edge you need to take the next step alS(